这位学监不喜欢因为天气恶劣而停课或延迟上学，结果这事儿反而断送了她的职业生涯。

I worked at a Vocational School that serviced the 11th and 12th grade of 20 or so local districts from across the county. The students would go to their main school for 2/3 of the day and ours 1/3. We had 3 sessions a day. Our school so rarely closed. It was dumb. Even if the parent school was closed they were expected to come to our school if we were open. 99% of the time the kids who got the day off didn't bother coming. There were times when 15+ districts would close and we'd stay open. Some classes would have 2 students. The instructors didn't bother to teach the curriculum for that day because the majority of the students would miss it and it would just have to be taught again. It ended just being a sit in your chair and look at the wall day. The students got nothing out of it, the teachers got nothing out of it and all with the potential of some kid wrapping his car a around a tree. But damn it! We didn't close.

Wow!

I remember having to walk to school because my stepdad was too lazy to drive my little sister and I up the road when the sidewalks were up to our waists with snow and ice. I can't remember if our brother was taken to his school or not.

It took forever to get to my school and I made my sister go with me to the office to call her school to let them know that she was at the middle school across the field just in case she was late for class. I took off my two extra sweaters and handed her my driest socks and gloves before she took off for her own school. I hung her wetest socks in my locker to hopefully dry before the end of school

Our stepdad likely got a call from both schools for this as we were the only two students who walked to school that day. All others were either driven in by their parents or called out for the day.

All I know is that I wasn't going to send my sister on to her own school, just yards across from the one I attended, without making sure that she was going to be warm.

Something similar happened in our school district ages and ages ago when I was in high school. We're down south and you know how it can get down here when we actually do get "real" snow. Nobody knows how to drive in it and we don't have the plows/equipment to deal with it so they'd cancel school at the first flurry.

Well my senior year we got a new Super from Michigan who already got everyone mightily irked when he essentially called us a bunch of ignorant southern pansies who freak out over a snowflake and they were going to start doing things the way they did up north.

Well that first decent snowstorm came and he didn't cancel. It was a total, city-wide shitshow. It made top story of the day on all 4 of the local news channels. The amount of wrecks were astronomical. A couple buses wrecked as well.

People were PISSED. They descended in great numbers upon the school board with the anger of a thousand suns. I know there were lawsuits but I don't know the outcome of them or anything like that. I do know that immediately the policy changed back to what it was. I think that was his only year as the school superintendent.

Similar thing happened while I was in high school. New super intendant refused to cancel school because “roads were cleared and in good condition when she drove to the office early that morning before the buses left” except that she lived in town and drove across town to get to the office. One of the busiest roads in the county. The school district stretched 20 miles each direction, mostly rural roads, even a few gravel roads. 3 directors of transportation resigned in one winter season. One day school should have been canceled, wasn’t, instead they let out early, except it was to late. 4 buses were redirected to a different school and those kids had to spend the night sleeping in the gym, 1 bus slide off the road and got stuck, injuring 4 kids, stranding them for about an hour, and 1 bus got stuck right in the middle of the road. Multiple parents left their house to go pick up their kids from the buses and schools, some also got stuck and stranded. The next day there was a mob outside the superintendent’s office. She was forced to resign on the spot and I know that people wrote letters to school districts she applied to after that. Parents probably should have sued.